In my last post, I wrote about how much I admired Amy Winehouse as an artist. I think it’s an empirical matter that she was gifted. Beyond that, it gets more problematic. I never met Winehouse; I cannot claim to know her. One reads anecdotes (like this one from ?uestlove) and gets an impression beyond [...]
Days of Wine and Roses (Part 1)
Last weekend, I was leaving the Tahoe area. I hadn’t really been following the news at all while on vacation. While in a convenience store, I happened to glance at Twitter and saw the news: Amy Winehouse, dead at age 27. How you reacted probably depended on what your relationship was with Winehouse as a [...]
Spot on Authenticity & Winehouse
In the spirit of catching up, I never linked to my last two Spot-on columns. Back in February, I wrote a piece called “Days of Wine and Roses,” which was inspired by the fact that I knew a few people who really hated Amy Winehouse. Their dislike seemed to be focused on the fact that [...]
Drunk on the sounds of Winehouse
Lately, I’ve been silent on the music front. Just taking a break. You know, this isn’t really meant to be an MP3 blog, despite the fact that’s commonly referred to as such. And despite the fact that more than a third of the posts contain MP3s. Chalk it up to a combination of availability and [...]